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latinos of the reject the reject Nion oh and  only Latino i'm just kidding everybody we're  

here for Coco how's it going it's uh it's been  a crazy day so far as we are shooting this but  

it's Arun and it is Juan and we are back in the  studio today and I'm excited man it's time for  

some music it's time for some animation it's a  musical animation Monday both genres animation's a  

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[Music]

wow beautiful 

beautiful opening shot oh the  smoke rising to the heavens

go sometimes I think I'm cursed cuz  of something that happened before I  

was even born i feel you kid 

a long time ago there was this  family the papa he was a musician 

and he loved coronas he and his family would sing  

and dance and counter blessings and race for pinks but he also  

had a dream to play for the world uhoh and one day he left with his guitar 

oh no and never returned 

oh married to the music 

you don't need to go get milk there's cows here and the mama she didn't have time to cry over  

that walkway musician hey 

after oh no oh no damn 

she found a way to provide for her daughter it's ironic that this is set to music there it is 

she learned to make shoes oh damn she became a cobbler  

or whatever the Spanish word is for then she taught her daughter to make shoes 

this is a really cool intro she taught her son-in-law  

yeah yeah using the traditional little  flags or I don't know what they're called 

whatever these like doily things are comment  below what are these called music had torn her  

family apart a 

but shoes held them all together and shoes are pretty important you know 

I'm pretty sturdy that woman who's my grand walk on me again 

she died way before I was born oh no my family still tells her story every  

year onto Day of the Dead day of the Dead 

great intro and her little girl she's my great grandmother 

mama Coco hola Mama Coco 

how are you for real oh 

actually my name is Miguel oh Miguel mama Coco has trouble remembering things 

oh Mama Coco i tell her pretty much everything 

i like her little chinny chin hairs like this is just way faster 

yep and the winner is Lucha Coco 

my Aita she's Mama Koko's daughter  aita runs our house just like Mama did 

with the picture tore out and everything no music 

oh snap dude pizza Planet dang i was just doing Morse  

codes with my lips i think we're the  only family in Mexico who hates music 

i don't even need a plan damn zaperos hola hey 

hey all right my guy 

just no music by the house or in the house and yet the world around is filled with it 

mhm hey this boy got music in him a

cute little trash dog you are

where's your fur buddy no I'm not supposed to love  

music but it's not my fault i mean how could you not 

ernesto de la Cruz the  greatest musician of all time 

look at that guitar headstock he started out with nobody from  

Santa Cecilia like me hey 

but when he played music he made  people fall in love with him 

oh yeah all these  

old movie flourishes but my alltime favorite

Hey I have to say goodbye

[Music] oh no oh no oh no the vibrant [Music]

by a giant bell what a terrible 

that's a crazy final song to go out on did that win an Oscar did they nominate  

this if he could play music maybe someday I  could too if it wasn't for my family much if  

I were you I'd march right up to my family  and say "Hey I'm a musician deal with it." 

They're setting up for tonight music competition  for Diautos you want to be like your hero you  

should sign up battle the bands look if you're too scared then  

well have fun making shoes i want a wooden skeleton 

what did Cruz always say "Size your moment 

remember me." Carpet 

show me what you got moacho show  him that's a nice guitar too 

look at that guy look at that  what kind of guitar is that 

it's a nylon string 

classic guitar i would say it's like a  classical guitar oh abolita no I'm full

please i would just get in a shine i know your tricks 

Mariachi he was just showing me  his guitar called Chunklas or 

Yeah chunkla 

he wants no part of your music mariachi you  keep away from me can a boy get paid though

[Music] crush you with my bosom just like a protective grandma 

no no no go away you go it's just 

Never name a street dog they'll follow you forever  trouble's a main view stray dog play with it once  

and it follows you home i'm mad at that miguel 

you know how Aalita feels about the plaza i was just shining shoes 

a musician's shoes you should be spitting  

on his shoes audacity way too many shoes they're having this talent show and I  

thought I might sign up tonight is about family 

what if I tap dance is that shoe music that is shoe music 

be bringing that devil [ __ ] in here devil steps get that Shuzik out of here is the one night  

of the year our ancestors can come visit  us they put their photos on the so their  

spirits can cross over that's beautiful 

if we don't put them up they can't come a 

I don't want to see you end up like like mama papa 

never mention that man he's better off forgotten why did you say that papa is home

it's okay i'm here who are you no I'm Coco this is such a beautiful  

tradition like beautifully animated  here but just the whole idea of an O  

ofrena is like really a gorgeous and like  the Dia de los Merto celebration all that 

you're going to get me in trouble boy  someone could hear me oh let's go let's go a 

Wow you made it look just like  the classic one it's adorable

you going to bring your hero through god

I have to play the music it's It's not just in me 

it is me hey I feel it

my man

he will listen to music yep

wonder what year this takes place in oh  my god I love the details man maybe he  

did just build this thing from scratch he's transcending oh my god the zone

this reminds me of the passion and the  transcendent nature of another movie we  

watched recently involving music hey absolutely 

i had to have faith in my dream no  one was going to hand it to me it  

was up to me to reach for that dream  grab it tight and make it come true 

oh right down the barrel it's  also kind of like Soul too 

that whole thread about being in the zone i'm going to play if he kills me 

i would love it if Soul was just about a  guy who gave up jazz to work at the AutoZone

the pedals guide our home i like the way that they're  

sprinkling in the actual tradition  through the little incidental dialogue too 

yeah it's really nice really  well blended in for us gringoes

oh you bringing that guitar into the Careful uhoh 

your Agelita had the most wonderful idea we've all  decided it's time you joined us in the workshop 

no oh no 

you are a Rivera and a Ria is a shoe maker through and through 

no he doesn't want to do that a Rivera runs through it man's  

trying to get the musical flow like a that  uh Oh my god no god [Music] dog no god no

catch catch oh god oh god oh crap that's bad oh

right yeah man look out beautiful

oh she's so dear she's so sweet she's She's  

too good for this world not only remember  me I'm going to be your memory live it

what are you talking about i'm going to be a musician oh Christ oh no 

just listen to me play end of argument 

jeez whoa you want to end up  

like that man left off your family i don't care if I'm on some stupid 

whoa no yeah oh she's a Who fan no guitar no music 

that's very rock and roll of you though you'll  feel better after you eat with your family 

and make shoes yeah man you You've  

kind of weaponized the word against  him made it like a straight jacket 

exactly that's a good look for you yeah but damn if those shoes don't hold up well 

can I still sign up you got an instrument 

no musicians got to bring their own instruments a 

Excuse me can I borrow your guitar sorry mucho you guys have a spare guitar 

no who has a spare guitar  

what am I supposed to do this is your moment okay but how play the paper on where the guitar  

is you going to do something  crazy wow that's beautiful 

god damn that is gorgeous 

i guess I shouldn't take the  Lord's name in vain there  

this beautiful memorialia that's happening not at this in this holy hallowed ground

dude the way they're using the focus is  cool like the way they're putting stuff  

in the foreground and the background and then  like the opening how you're panning around and  

you got like you know rack focus to fireworks  and then back to the you know shrouds and stuff 

oh damn his guitar is like in the mausoleum i'm sorry right

that's what I'm talking about smart kid i'm your great great  

grandson i need to borrow this surpris under 

Oh oh 

our family thinks music is a curse none of them  understand but I know you would have you would  

have told me to follow my heart [Music] so if  it's all right with you I'm going to play in  

the plaza like you did yeah yeah whoa 

dang wow it's powerful damn immediately

i guess people would flock to this oh crap 

ro I'm sorry  

it's not what it looks like oh what oh you did  say that line if even if it kills me earlier

does get knocked into the astral plane miguel mama miguel come home i'm surprised they didn't put  

that guitar under glass or something oh no little boy are you okay here let me help you 

oh cool oh oh cool

oh no oh wow

that was a cool transition into this  seeing being with amongst the dead 

yeah through the grave

a look how big she's getting 

wow this is gorgeous it's so touching hello oh what what's going on dante whoa 

Miguel miguel oh snap 

you're here here here and you  can see us we're your family mh

rosita

hola doria he doesn't seem entirely dead we need  Mama she'll know how to fix this mama she couldn't  

cross over she's stuck on the other side do you do like how they have the mustaches  

and skeletons that's funny  what if mama can't come to us 

then we are going to help damn [Music]

god from one half of the family to the other wow that's a bridge for you

come on Megan it's It's okay

oh my god oh there's like no barrier for the dog 

yeah I guess so go between life and death although I guess you know they say  

animals can sense things different wow wow that's amazing i want a picture of that 

that is a gorgeous design  whoever came up with that 

design medal or award wow that is an insane visual

and all the different like skull shapes  through it damn you're all really out there 

you thought we weren't oh I don't know i thought it  

might have been one of those made up things  that adults tell kids like vitamins whoa 

are those Whoa alrizes spirit creatures 

they guide souls on their journey watch your step they make everywhere  

little poops like an amusement park anything to  declare some curus from my family hey [Music] whoa 

oh your photos are in your  son have a great visit a 

That's like an like an iPad  with a camera that's funny 

that's very funny yes it is i So we skip this 

i'm on so many it'll just overwhelm you i do not think so looks like no one put  

up your photo okay when I say I was pretty  just now that was a lie i'm just going to  

zip right over you won't even know I'm gone i feel like you should at least minimum be  

able to cross to your tombstone if I was in  charge of the rules wait what he's sinking 

whoa why why can't you go what the hell is happening 

who cares flower bridge who's that guy  anything to declare as a matter of fact yes

lol that's a great gag 

nice wow beautiful beautiful i demand  to speak to the person in charge my  

family always put my photo on your friend  that devil box tells you nothing but lies 

it's like an old Mac we ran into um

cuz he knocked it down you the Rivera family well you're cursed 

no you stole from the dead 

but I wasn't stealing the guitar oh but none of this explains why  

I couldn't cross over you took my photo 

the way to undo a family curse  is to get your family's blessing 

but you got to do it by sunrise equally your hand 

oh oh my it's  

like Back to the Future but spookier yeah dude your family's here you can get your blessing right  

now miguel I give you my blessing i give you my  blessing to go home and to never play music again 

what that's messed up oh 

don't take it don't touch it don't touch oh 

I was not expecting that no skeletons it's funny what 

you going to do it again though oh no oh no oh my god 

immediately went back and forth whoa 

this isn't fair it's my life you go home my way or no way 

you really hate music that much i will not let you go down the same path he did 

i mean there's lots of ways to go down the path he did it's 

not the same person he's family oh no 

he's here i need to visit the  restroom that makes me kakitas

fleeing an officer falsifying a unibrow  oh you like tape on his his bone there  

interesting on his leg too i want to visit my living  

friend so I'm letting you off with a warning a the skull chair the skull lining of the 

Yeah and the chair too the light  switch that's great such cool design

the phone like god everything i need the Knuckles's blessing 

that's weirdly specific he's my great great grandfather  

he's your What i can help you you can  help me we can help each other but most  

importantly you can help me i met Look at me Ector

spirit guide wow that's beautiful who has that per Miguel touch

oh it's like a dog ram cat pegasus

up or whatever the you know Mexican folklore  

version is this place runs on memories when you're  well remembered people put up your photo and you  

get to cross the bridge and visit the living on  the others unless you're No one's ever put up my  

picture but you can change that youap

you know you know he's a he's  a busy man the way he walks

great puts on the dumb show to mark the end of the 

and you can get us in hey  you said you have tickets 

that was a lie good off  come on i'll get you to him 

how i happen to know where he's rehearsing what  does Chamako mean like little buddy or something

i lost the dress

dante we shouldn't be in here dang whoa beautiful design wow  

life life modeling or death modeling I guess  whoa whoa crazy polkadotted monkey oh golly oh  

golly oh the mighty shog guide of wondering  spirit and who spirit have you guided to me 

oh the ales of this world can take many forms  they are as mysterious as they are powerful 

whoa trippy gravy 

darkness got the clamp 

from the darkness a giant papaya

the lights go out and Ernesto Cruz to the stage yes I could kind of see her and she  

did play Fredo so Whoa where's the real de la Cruz 

ernesto doesn't do rehearsals he's too busy  hosting that fancy party at the top of his tower 

a It's a rooftop bar there's  even classism in the afterlife 

you know anything about this party it's the hot  ticket but if you're not on the guest list you're  

never getting in ask him how he died oh no

oh no okay i go poisoning  which is a big difference 

hey if you really want to get to Ernesto  there is that music competition at the  

Plaza de la Cruz winner gets to play at his party oh you know where I can get a guitar i know a guy  

yeah you know where I can get some chreso

[Music]

what what what the hell happened

no no what 

i couldn't even play that thing if I wanted interesting well his his are carved into his  

skull where the other ones have a paint you know I don't play anymore  

the guitar's for the king you want it you got to earn it 

oh a game of wits any requests you know my favorite [Music]

god the textures man

heterocchromia

[Music] i know what you were gonna say

[Music]

oh no oh my god oh okay no they are  

carved in yeah like his paint is faded oh what happens to you oh just 

you just fade into obscurity wait what happened he's being  

forgotten there's no one left in the living world  who remembers you you disappear from this world we  

call it the final death oh no 

memories they have to be passed down by those who  knew us in life the stories they tell about us 

legacy 

but there's no one left alive pass down story oh man hey it happens to everyone eventually

deito oh it's a lovely image too and  look at the glass like god the textures 

wow the second death it's crazy or the final death 

you told me you hated musicians  you never said you were one 

how do you think I knew your great great  grandpa we used to play music together  

told him everything he knows the winner gets to play for the

She got that Brazilian bone lift [Music]  

sax man death metal my manics you  always this nervous before a performance 

i don't know i've never performed before what 

no no no no no you have to win your life  literally depends on you i'll go out 

no i need to do this why 

if I can't go out there and play one  song how can I call myself a musician  

okay you want to perform then you got to perform  first you have to loosen up shake off those nerves

give me your best

hey

oh no you can do this got that manifest baby

hey

yeah put them shoes family  shoes on your head [Music]

bars

only a little crazy he's close find him [Music]

get that harmony we're looking for a living kid of 12 

have you seen a living boy  i see a boy living right now 

that's right that was great that  was a good call too that was awesome 

good song switch i'm proud of you oh

I was looking for an encore i have an emergency announcement  

please be on the lookout for a living boy  earlier tonight he ran away from his family 

crap you said that was your only  

family i need a musician's blessing you lied to me 

oh you're one to talk i don't even know if I'm going to  

last the night i'm not going to miss my one chance  to cross that bridge cuz you want to live out some  

stupid musical fantasy damn 

taking you to your family let go of me you want to  

help me you only care about yourself  keep your dumb photo stay away from me 

dang dang escalated quickly dante

stop stop are you going to Oh you're going to expose him bro  

i am giving you my blessing and you are going home i don't want your blessing music's the only  

thing that makes me happy you want to  take that away you'll never understand

oh oh no i thought you hated music 

i loved it i remember that feeling when my  

husband would play and I would sing oh he wanted  to play for the world now you must make a choice 

but I don't want to pick sides why can't you be  on my side that's what family is supposed to do  

support you but you never will there's got to be a compromise 

you got to be a good musician  and a good dad at the same time 

you can play just in your community  or at home hey guys it's Poco 

you were on fire tonight hey  musician to musician i need a favor 

oh did you guys win the competition winners congratulations

you sneak oh ah smart 

i guess that would make sense you would have  to bust up that drum to get him in there

[Music] hey hey hey hey hey hey  hey hey oh look at that pool 

the pool's like his guitar nice yeah the skeleton

ah crap a crap but what can we do this is hopeless 

you must have faith sister  oh but he will never listen 

he will listen to music to music musa you're getting  

kicked out bro yeah there we go

[Music]

hey 

he's the one person not paying  attention or that small group whoa 

damn whoa no oh here we go hero time nice good technique are you all right Nino

whoa you You are that boy that the one who came  

from the land of the living why have you come here i'm Miguel your your great great grandson 

huh huh i need your blessing so I  

can go back home and be a musician just like you my boy with a talent like yours how could I not  

listen a I have a great great grandson  huh damn yeah what happens with I was  

going to say it is an honor [Music] hey nice i've been looking up to you my whole life you're  

the guy who who actually did it he's the most remembered guy 

did you ever regret it choosing  music over everything else 

it was hard saying goodbye to my hometown leaving your family 

what now i could not have done it differently one cannot deny who one is meant to be my great  

great grandson are meant to be a musician me whose voice is he he's got to be some 

i have to get home before sunrise i really do need to get you home  

i am sorry to see you go Miguel i hope  you die very soon i give you my blessing 

we had a deal chamaco hector  please miguel put my photo up 

oh who does know you're being forgotten 

and whose fault is that hector please 

those were my songs you took my songs famous oh because you never told anyone that I wrote them 

that's crazy oh 

whoa we made a great team but you died and I only  sang your songs because I wanted to keep a part  

of you alive oh bro bro 

Miguel can put my photo up but I can  cross over the bridge you can see my girl 

oh remember the night I left we drank together  and you told me you would move heaven and earth  

for your amigo i'm asking you to now heaven and earth that's Donidalgo's  

toast in the de movie El Camino i would move heaven and earth for you Migo 

donidal poisons the drink oh that's messed up oh wow no 

you want to give up now when we're  this close to reaching our dream 

this was your dream you'll manage i can't do this without your songs Hector 

oh no hate me if you want but my mind  

is made up whoa oh I could never hate you if you  must go then I'm I'm sending you off with a toast

woof i would move heaven and earth for you Migo salude

oh crap you walked me to the  train station inconceivable 

but I felt a pain in my stomach i thought it  

must have been something I ate perhaps it was that my friend 

no wow 

that's That's from you the fact that he put it in a movie is also crazy 

yeah i feel like you would want to take that  self-report right i woke up dead that's good

wow wow oh how could you 

security security whoa i just wanted to go back  

home whenever anyone says they woke up  dead I think of scary movie three or four 

i wonder why he wouldn't tell Ernesto that  he wrote the songs or told you think that  

you murdered for his songs what like a tel nolla twist 

everyone knows you're the good guy oh crap oh crap security wow wow you're flat out 

your whole villain villain mode success doesn't come for free 

oh my god be willing to do whatever it takes to 

seize your moment jeez perfect it's funny i saw  this when it came out and I don't remember any  

of this this is crazy truly wild

oh my god beautiful oh bro

is it Guile Garcia Bernol she's forget me 

no

i just wanted to see her again  i wish I could apologize i wish  

I could tell her that her I was trying to go home 

yeah dude coco oh no whoa 

coco grandma Coco

oh wait is it Is it him in the  picture that's crazy [Music]

did you get this that's my mama  that's my mommy is that you 

oh that's so sweet

weird

that was a big beautiful oh I feel chills 

that's wicked beautiful you know the worst part  even if I never got to see Coco in the living  

world at least one day I'd see her here give her  the biggest they're just going to miss each other  

the moment she's gone from the living world you disappear from this one you know I  

wrote her a song once you did we used to sing  

it every night no matter how far apart we  were but I wouldn't get to sing it to her

yeah dude [Music]

little one

baby

this is so sweet

[Laughter]

me

you should be the one the  world remembers not the La Cruz 

i didn't write remember me for the world i for  a pretty sorry excuse for a great great grandpa 

are you kidding me i thought I was related to a murderer you are 

yeah man you are dog 

had a rough rough go of it down there i'm proud we're family i'm proud to be his family

i'm proud to be his family oh there you are hell yeah

[Laughter]

you look good

[Music] i'm surprised he hasn't  seen her in all this time 

you are a real spirit guide  who's a good spirit guide hey oh 

oh what the hell whoa oh you getting your stripes you getting  

your colors wow [Music] thank goodness we found  you in time how many times must I turn you away 

i want nothing to do with you you just never let him get his words out 

he was just trying to get me home i didn't  want to listen but he was right nothing is  

more important than family [Laughter] first I  need to find De Cruz to get Ector's photo so  

he can see Goku again try to go home  to join Goku but Deacru murdered him 

and so what if it's true you leave me  alone with a child to raise and I'm just  

supposed to forgive you you didn't want to Miguel if we help you get his phone you will  

return home no more music bruh 

I I can't forgive you but I will  help you that's what family does 

can't forgive him for dying when  he's trying to go back to you 

everyone clear on the plan find it to Miguel 

send Miguel home got your pedals hey 

now we just have to find them yes don't I know you hey 

that's for murdering the love of my life she's talking about me i'm the love of my life 

all right cut to the chase you and  that's for trying to murder my grandson 

grandson 

she's talking about me you still  has the photo just in there hector 

the photo get it get it get it get it no whoa 

said love of your life i don't know what I said that's what I heard yeah

let's go hey yes cool 

it's not quite nutch but I'll take it

why did you want the picture of Hector anyway well he'll die 

he wants Yeah he wants the memory to be forgotten  so that no one finds out his legacy is a lie

oh go yes just get the love of the music back let's go Mama Emlda [Applause] whoa

oh boy sing

[Music] amazing hey

I don't know what she's saying  but she's spitting [Music]

she's beating them with the power of dance  how can they hear them without the mics i'm  

not going to question it the absence of  lungs gives them extra power to force air

[Music]

[Music]

garf oh I forgot what that felt like 

a Yeah yeah i give you my blessing to go home  to never forget how much your family loves you 

hell yeah you got the music in you 

we're going home going home no my god

stay back kick him in the bones 

i've worked too hard too hard to let him destroy  everything he's a living child let's go you think  

I let him go back to the land of the living  with your photo to keep your memory alive 

cancel him ector's the real musician you're  just the guy who murdered him and stole his song 

uh-oh 

and the one who's willing to do  what it takes to seize my moment 

oh boy whatever it takes 

whatever it takes wow do you murder children

save us dog 

yeah come on Dante there he is  rescue us from the inferno no

griffin mexican Griffin yeah oh my god or Pepita whichever

this picture no 

dude he looks so happy in the picture  too [Music] oh brother this guy stinks

get him eat his bones good thing they  

got that backstage camera crunch him up nice kitty wow

this guy's loving it oh I like that they  keep the spotlight going oh again nice nice 

wow the photo i lost it it's okay m

god the sound on that too no  we can still find the photo 

it's almost sunrise just like dip  down to get the photo real quick 

i promise you we're both out  of time no no no no no no 

i just wanted her to know that  I love her you have our blessing

go home i promise I won't let forget you no

now you got to convince your  living family to embrace music

you know I think you can get a replica of this  guitar on the uh there's a guitar maker called  

Cordoba cordova or Cordoba that that makes them oh wow you get them for like a few hundred  

bucks cool what are you  

doing with that give it to me let me get Oh can you hear me it's Miguel i saw your  

papa remember papa remember oh boy mama Coco please don't forget him

oh buddy what are you doing to that  poor woman what's gotten into you 

play play remember [Music]

he wanted you to have this

oh no

whoa

[Music]

cool cool

cool

yes

my arms again [Music] [Laughter] [Music] my papa  

used to sing me that song  your papa loved you so much

yeah he did yeah man

oh do you have another photo of him i kept his leg

yes the corner 

the corner of the photo  yes [Applause] yes my man a 

when I was a little girl

oh yay 

brought everyone together to  hear a story one more time 

mhm one year later remember me forget you 

here one of Santa Catilia's greatest treasure  the home of the esteemed songwriter Ector Rivera  

hey that is your papa Julio and there's  these aren't just old pictures they're our  

family and they're counting on us to remember them

a mama Coco hey

well done you made it made it man [Music] enjoy  

your business yay

well done my man super well done going together so cool

the whole family [Music] oh my god so cute

[Music] in every beat

of my little buddy oh you exist in both worlds okay cool 

in every beat of my proud Corazone [Music]

hey

[Music]

hey [Music]

[Music] wow wow what a beautiful movie and  

now let's get the pop version yeah modern day baby 

props to all involved that was gorgeous that was a gorgeous beautiful and I love  

these drawings i do uh always appreciate  especially you know now that 3D animated  

movies are most of what exists at least when they  throw up the drawings or the concept art or just  

you know the vibes in the credits or whatever  well done Matt Aspbury and Danielle Fineberg  

it's interesting that in these kinds of movies  like the director of photography can be split  

into two like one who takes lead on the camera  so to speak and then the other one who does the  

lighting it's kind of cool what a beautiful film man 

anthony Gonzalez well done it was Guy Garcia  Bernal okay benjamin Brat was Ernesto de  

la Cruz alana Ubach uh golly who was Freda oh we missed it 

i was gonna say is she credited i don't know we'll have to look that up i I I am willing to bet that  

could have been unless we just missed the credit  yeah I feel like Selma would be a funny Easter egg 

gang if you've made it to this point in the  video thank you so much for joining us thus  

far this is one heck of a movie and uh God I'm glad we got to share that man  

that was that was real beautiful and I  feel like we are too every you know most  

people like music but I feel like we are two  especially musically immersed folks we are 

so uh thought it  

was pretty pretty cool that we got to take this  one on and uh as we do uh we've started you know  

a new segment kicking off these reviews with some  Patreon questions so uh before we get to that big  

thanks to Prepper for chopping these highlights  down making music out of this medley of moments we  

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right our first patron question as soon as the  app decides to work with me here the the listy  

here also shouts out to our man PL for compiling  all this stuff um Ashley Harris asks or or says  

uh and thank you for chiming in and  stoking the fires of our conversation  

miguel knew the basics of his family history but  learned so much more on Dia de los Muertos if you  

had the opportunity to meet your ancestors under  safeish conditions would you and what would you  

uh hope to learn about them oh my god oh man i mean I would absolutely take  

it like if this was possible you know like if if  this literally was how you know the rules of life  

and death worked out and you know you could cross  over back and forth or something like that i think  

it would be really cool like I I know certain  things about my you know family tree going up  

to at least my greatgrandparents but there's a lot  there that I don't know about or you know that you  

know and I'm getting to that point in life too  where you start to kind of think once you live  

enough I think you start to realize you know and  if you're lucky enough to to have family close to  

you you know you you start to kind of realize that  time is precious and also that yeah you want to  

kind of like go back and collect just the details  like you start to find there's that old trope I  

think of like oh grandpa like you're boring story  but like you know I love that stuff and and you  

know the the more I live the more I'm like yeah  give me that like you know let me hear about just  

what life was like for any number of you know  these pictures that I've seen yeah on the wall  

or an old photo album or whatever it might be um I mean yeah I guess I would just hope to learn  

anything possible any kind of I guess what their  passions were like and you know how they filled  

their days and you know what they were like and  what their relationships in within the family  

might have been like all that stuff yeah um

yeah when I uh when I hear that question I um  I think of my grandpa who uh passed in 2014  

um my grandma on my dad's side passed in '08 and  then um her husband I guess technically also my  

grandpa passed in 20 no uh passed in 94 and I was  born in 95 and uh never got a chance to meet him  

of course but yeah I have a ton of questions um  stories history you know from my dad's side like  

what was it like growing up in Louisiana um like  on my mom's side I'd ask Yeah just so much about  

what it was like growing up in the 60s and just  that time being black in America but I'd also  

want to share my poetry with them because um yeah I mean I I knew my my grandma and I knew  

my grandpa but neither of them ever got to  hear me do poetry before so I'd like to share  

that with them and um just hear on their own  experiences so yeah that's that's what I would  

want to do if I to see somebody that's beautiful yeah man i would spend all that time talking about  

me and not let them get a word in edgewise no no no this is my show 

i am taking time out of my busy  life to come visit your death 

i am the center of attention that's a really  thoughtful question though and I would love to  

if anybody in the comments wants to of this  video wants to chime in by all means please  

uh Tori Jerry thank you for chiming in as well  dia de Muertos is a Mexican heritage tradition  

with roots in indigenous culture to learn more  visit your local library to the people across  

time who supported and inspired us what a lovely  way to end off the credits here that's beautiful 

oh man little little of  frienda style right at the end 

remember us yeah beautiful all  

right tori Jerry Coco three questions coco  is my favorite film hands down beautiful 

that's a comment uh as a Mexican it was a  surreal experience to finally have something  

like this that is so informed by our culture  and whimsy you rarely see children's films  

tackle the loss of death and here's one uh where  it's literally the entire plot how do you think  

uh they did navigating that one did you  learn anything new about this holiday and  

or what stood out to you about it uh and three  this is also one of the only I didn't I didn't  

even register this uh it's one of the only Pixar  films that is a musical how do you think they did  

with the music oh man the musical is incredible i would say yeah start off with question three  

the music like I I'm going to imagine that all the  songs we heard for the most part were originals  

for this movie i'm sure there's probably some  traditional element of music worked in as well 

um but yeah I love the music in this  i thought this was really well handled  

was well dispersed throughout the plot and you  know again to have something that is so heavily  

steeped in you know South American Mexican musical  culture and stuff like that those traditions those  

sounds those instruments um I love that like I I  love the journey you know the cultural aspect of  

the journey of that and also the sounds are  just beautiful and I thought that the array  

of songs that they assembled for this movie kind  of hit a lot of different flavors it wasn't like  

repetitive or redundant or you know fillery yeah  um I think all the music in this movie was really  

strong and really fun and catchy um yeah kind  of similar to yourself i I think I said at the  

beginning like "Oh yeah I've heard that song  before." I was like "Oh yeah." Cuz I I I that  

uh I watched this one time in theaters in 2017 on  Thanksgiving Day and I didn't remember anything  

about it other than Remember Me and Pok Loco  i like I couldn't remember a single element  

of the plot the characters or anything but just  those songs but the fact that music has our main  

character is trying to um embark on or or at least  share to some extent um is so important because it  

it transcends time and and it sticks with you it's  it is what you remember um most like the tune even  

if you don't remember the lyrics of something you  remember the the tune of it you know that's why we  

have Shazam like what's this what's this song with  this melody and this this beat or whatever but  

um yeah I think that what was the other two  questions uh so the first one is yeah how do you  

think they handled the musical element being that  this is one of their rare musical films uh did  

you learn anything new about Dia de Muertos and or  what stood out to you about their depiction of it 

and um how do you think they did navigating the  loss of life like death in the plot basically  

um I guess I didn't realize the importance of  the the photos on the display what was it called 

the friend yeah i And how pivotal that aspect of  

um the celebration is and and and honoring the  heritage and I don't I don't know if the story  

and the and the the basis of them passing through  is something from uh the culture something the  

movie made up in of itself but I think that's  um yeah there's something beautiful about that  

that the the honoring of them is based on your  ability to show your care and your memory of the  

people from the past and you know it it even if it's not like a global legacy 

their their stories and their images live on  through the descendants and then the the level  

of of impact or just like community within  your own um family kind of dictates how how  

um you you're presented and the longevity of  your ability to cross over into this world  

i thought that was beautiful yeah absolutely i feel like this  

is um you know Dia de Muertos especially I think  you know if you if you're growing up and you're  

into Halloween and stuff like that like it's  adjacent in time and so you kind of gather up  

that imagery and and you know over the years too  as you know we have awakened a bit as a society  

in some respects and we have woken up 

yeah well you know I mean like along as much as  people lose their minds uh when you drop that  

word in anywhere I feel like one thing about it  that is um I think demonstra demonstrabably and  

definitively lovely is the way in which people  do go out of their way now to be like hey you  

know you've seen sugar skulls around I'm sure  here's what they actually mean or here's what  

the ritual actually is here's what the tradition  is here's what this image is coming from and so  

I mean in the in the last several years I  feel like you know we've I have learned to  

be sort of more respectful in that regard of  you know what the cultural aspect of it means  

and I think it's really gorgeous like you know  it's it seems like a the kind of tradition that  

anybody could get on board with in a way like  I think it's it's beautifully you know of its  

uh time and place but also you know like the idea  of yes setting up a little altar and leaving out  

these gifts for your family like these are all  little scraps that I had gathered over you know  

many years and and some stuff I had learned when  I was a little younger but I think certainly since  

this movie came out there's been a lot more of  a direct sort of clarification within society of  

just like what is diutos what is the purpose  what is the ritual what is the tradition and  

I I I just love the way this personified that  and and clued into the idea that yeah like this  

is how we you know honor our ancestors this  is you know the we live in a world obviously  

where everything is digitized and and you know  it's not we don't live in the natural world  

the what am I trying to say the further we get  into time the less of the natural world we live in  

and this is sort of a beautiful human thing to do  it's a very sort of you know natural world to me  

kind of thing to do which is yeah set up an altar  get the image of your loved ones so that you can  

you know think on and reflect on them and remember  them leave out some things that they would have  

loved and you know I think it on the one hand  it's like yeah objectively speaking like are  

they really there to grab it who knows but at the  same time I think yeah for us it you know embraces  

death in a different way and and confronts and  sort of um just sits with it in a sense you know  

it's like it might be sad to be reminded that you  know whoever might be on your ofrena is gone but  

at the same time I think there is something that  is sort of celebratory and in tune with the sort  

of continuum of of all things of life of mortality  and and whatnot not to yeah to have something like  

that that brings your loved ones present though  they may be gone and you know those traditions  

of like ooh during this time of the year the veil  is thin between the living and the dead and you  

know the heavens and the earth and whatever  else and um I think this movie to kind of  

melt a couple of your questions together I think  this really nicely handled the concept of death  

um because yeah like it's a Disney trope obviously  of like oh they're going to merk someone's parents  

and this was like yeah there is a a certain whimsy  uh there's a certain melancholy but there's also I  

mean for a movie about death this doesn't skew  as dark as it could or as sad or depressing  

and and in some ways like I can think of more  heartbreaking death stories in the Disney/Pixar  

cannon anyway but at the same time this kind of  demystifies a certain amount of things and yeah  

accepts death as a part of life and shows how  from like a very young age from Miguel's age you  

can be clued into the fact that yeah these are our  relatives who have passed on but also this is how  

we honor them it hurts it always will hurt to some  extent but this is how we keep them alive we can  

create familial bonds and we can celebrate here in  the now together with those of us who are living  

whilst communing over our you know lost loved ones  who we might have known or who we might have only  

just heard about and again the more we live the  more precious that stuff feels and you know it's  

like my grandparents are gone um and I was lucky  enough to hear a lot of stories and be around for  

a lot of stuff but it never feels like it's enough  you know and now you know I'm like okay well you  

know family members come to visit or or I should  do this more with my own direct parents like what  

were grandma and grandpa like or what was great  grandma and grandpa like well tell me some just  

experiences just recount this stuff because like  that's life and that's precious and and so yeah  

like this is I think from my outside understanding  of the again the ritual and the celebration this  

felt very much like some type of macob but  very beautiful and bright fiesta you know and  

uh I thought this was really nicely handled and  I'm glad to see that it appears that again folks  

for whom this is hitting like directly at home  you know people who you know have grown up within  

this culture seem to also really flock to and of  this movie and it's cool to see them nail that and  

uh and you know get it you know spiritually on  point um so yeah I think they navigated the idea  

of death and and the idea of being forgotten and  I think that's an idea too that like again is kind  

of nuanced and sophisticated especially for like  a young viewer to be like "Oh yeah you know like  

you know it's sad to think that these people  are gone but here's how we can honor them."  

And that's even different than simply thinking  about them you know we can actively honor them 

um so yeah I mean like and this just had so  many lovely details and stuff like that so I  

mean yeah um I'm trying to think if I learned  anything specifically new about the holiday i  

think the thing that this gives me is like you  know bits and pieces maybe going in about like  

what certain you know aspects are um in a factual  sense but this movie I think brought the aura and  

brought the sort of cultural intermingling with  everything else as a factor into it you know 

you got to see it kind of in action and in  practice if that makes sense and I think that is  

a a really enchanting detail that then brings you  into again like the beauty of the celebration and  

the idea of like you're like I should do that like  you know we should all do it seems like the kind  

of thing we should all do you know no seriously 

yeah um honor our ancestors  

guys honor their legacy honor their memories keep them alive in way absolutely um okay we  

got one from Dylan Panther Bone this question is  for both John and Aaron for the Coco movie what  

is one song that could take you instantly back  in time much like the grandma at the end of the  

movie for myself Hey Jude by the Beatles always  makes me think of my grandma i would love to hear  

either of your picks as fellow music nerds music  is a powerful thing side note I hope everyone on  

the team is staying hydrated and finding time  to prioritize yourself self-care is important  

and every reject is worth it thank you so much  awesome for that appreciate that what song takes  

you back oh man a few songs the the song uh maybe  not thinking of family but so to speak but a song  

called Nine in the Afternoon by Panic at the Disco i love that song 

i love that song makes me think of karaoke on occasion 

yeah dude makes me think of middle school um yeah dude there that's that one just  

rings true and like nostalgia for me also um  yeah weirdly Demi Lovato's Cool for the Summer  

makes me think of like my early 20s college era sure yeah there's there's a lot of them um those  

are the two I think of at the moment but  I'm trying to think of like childhood songs 

childhood the first one that springs to mind and  I'm sure there are others you know this is the  

kind of question I would think forever about  because there are so many songs that take you  

places but here in this moment I am struck with  listening to Hotel California in the car with  

my dad when we would be like listening to like the  classic rock radio and it's like a song that would  

come on a lot and and I was always like enamored  with like the guitars and the storytelling and  

like you know my dad would emphasize certain lines  of the song or whatever you know it's like it's a  

well known well-loved song but uh such a lovely place 

such a lovely face ready your room at  the Hotel California any time of year  

uh God that's a great question though and and  you guys obviously jump in the comments and let  

us know but uh yeah thank you Dylan just for for  the lovely sentiments the lovely wishes and uh you  

know for for checking in with us as people as well  as uh giving us a really thoughtful question here 

baby when we grinding I just can't deny it that song makes me think of  

uh my parents wedding let's go 

and I did not know what that song meant  until I was a lot older and I was like "Oh 

that is a very horny song if I ever get married  we're going to play stroken the entire time that's  

right followed by Bustin and if you don't know  Bustin just Google Bustin all right flev Doran  

because we got to wrap up pretty quick uh Coco  is the best Pixar film there I've said it coco  

is one of only two films I've convinced my mother  to go to the cinema with me to see and although  

the theme of the film didn't hit personally it  was still a memorable experience for how great  

this film was well yeah and I mean too you know  if you're even again if it's not exactly you know  

your familiar culture or tradition I think that  there's just so much beautiful craftsmanship on  

display with this film that yeah you you couldn't  not get something out of it um let's see let's see  

do we have any more i think that does it for the  patron questions today thank you guys for being  

thoughtful and for jumping in uh you know this  this was really lovely and I I think you know we  

said like we caught this when it first came out and this was like a fresh viewing experience  

and and yeah the animation gorgeous the textures  beautiful i thought the story flowed really well  

the twists and turns of the plot I thought  were really great the whole twist with Dea  

Cruz and also Hector being his actual great  great-grandfather um and just the way they  

personify the family and you know the the lessons  that are learned and the eb and flow and the whole  

back and forth of like I give you my blessing but  I only give it to you this way well I'm going to  

give it to you a certain different way and then  finally ending up on I give you my blessing no  

conditions unconditional love just get back  there that's what matters you know you have  

the gift of life live it to the fullest be with  your family and like the whole resolution with  

Coco I thought was gorgeous like you said like  it had a certain amount of like soap opera like  

plotting at times in the exact right way and just  all the fun in games of like how they design the  

world how they use the lore and then take you  into this world of the dead and him doing the  

Back to the Future fade and all that stuff as  he attempts to get this blessing and and again  

like even when Ernesto is like about to give  him the blessing the thing doesn't light up i  

noticed it's like little details and and there  are tons of like important little details but  

also other just beautiful artistic details in  terms of where all these different skull images  

are like this is a movie you could I bet scrub  and just find endless things to appreciate so 

Rock Stars Coco video exactly so yeah just as  

a feat of animation as a feat of rousing you  know human storytelling as a representation  

of a cultural ritual and you know celebration  and ceremony i just thought this was terrific 

it was beautiful no I I And the voice cast like excellent voice cast 

top-notch voice cast enjoyed it from top to bottom  enjoyed the heart enjoyed the culture enjoyed  

Zim music and yeah I I make go call my mom sure and have have many memories shared of  

uh previous generations my grandpa and  her grandma and my dad and the same i  

just want to remember everybody and everything um I want to rewatch this after Halloween every year 

that would be lovely make this a November watch 

yeah totally nightmare Before Christmas okay real quick before we head out you  

want to guess Rotten Tomatoes let's do it oh god this had to  

have been high man this had to have been  like a 96% for for critics or audience 

audiences 99 you're very close 97  for critics and 94 for audiences 

okay sure i I I would have almost thought that  that you know I thought we could get close but  

hey anywhere in the 90s I think for this is is  pretty nicely you can't scoff at that you know 

cannot and I mean I'm I would be curious  to hear what some people who didn't care  

for this think of it because I mean I  thought this was really beautiful and  

especially this time like this really sang um who would not care for Coco this is a great  

heartfelt film maybe people that don't  believe in music maybe they hate music 

this is funny uh Miguel just a little piece  of trivia was originally only going to play  

the guitar and not sing when director Lee Unkitch  discovered Anthony Gonzalez was in fact a talented  

singer it was decided Miguel would do both so  Anthony could share this talent in the film that  

ising freaking cool uh and this also spent more  days at number one in the box office than any  

other animated film of the 21st century wow 

yeah um Coco okay and  

uh oh this would apparently be banned in China but Oh this film contains specific themes and  

content which would be ordinarily be banned  in China reportedly the Chinese sensor board  

members were so touched by the film they made an  exception and allowed it that is freaking crazy  

um during one visit uh one of the visits to an to  a Wakan family in Mexico for inspiration director  

Leon paid particular attention to a traditional  ofrena that holds pictures of the dead and is also  

used to offer food during di de muertos he noticed  the family basset hound had to be repeatedly  

chased away from the friend because it tried to  eat the food he found this so amusing that he  

included in the scene uh in the movie where Miguel  is horrified that Dante is eating the food um 

apparently there was a John Ratzenberger cameo  in here I did not catch uh and I guess they were  

considering Alfred Molina at one point really um yeah uh at least according to this  

uh Oh oh no never mind i take it back  adrien Molina is the co-director my bad  

um but yeah golly this was terrific gang gang let us know your thoughts on this movie uh I  

loved watching this again for the first time  it felt like and uh yeah man I'm going to be  

reflecting it was very cathartic this movie  like those those this really moved me this  

time especially so uh yeah I couldn't I don't  have enough words for how much I enjoyed this  

aaron thank you for sharing this with me thank you for sharing it with me and yeah  

I had a great time and thank you guys  for watching and we'll see you guys in  

the next one it's been great absolutely and hey  remember me or else I'm gonna get un poco loco

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
latinos ləˈtiːnoʊz A1	noun - people of Latin American descent
reject rɪˈdʒɛkt A2	verb - to refuse to accept or consider noun - a person or thing that is rejected
Coco ˈkoʊkoʊ A1	noun - a Pixar animated film
crazy ˈkreɪzi A2	adjective - extremely unusual or unexpected
animation ænɪˈmeɪʃən A2	noun - the technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move
musical ˈmjuːzɪkəl A1	adjective - relating to music noun - a film or play with singing and music
Disney ˈdɪzni A1	noun - a major American entertainment company
classic ˈklæsɪk A2	adjective - judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality
watch wɒtʃ A1	verb - to look at or observe something
lamp læmp A1	noun - a device that produces light
Pixar ˈpɪksɑːr A1	noun - a subsidiary of Disney known for animated films
observe əbˈzɜːrv B1	verb - to watch carefully, especially to notice details
Inside Out ˌɪnsaɪd ˈaʊt A1	noun - a Pixar animated film about emotions
San Francisco ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ A1	noun - a city in California, USA
political pəˈlɪtɪkəl A2	adjective - relating to government or public affairs
intense ɪnˈtɛns B1	adjective - extreme and very strong
exhausting ɪɡˈzɔːstɪŋ B1	adjective - extremely tiring
topic ˈtɒpɪk A2	noun - a subject of discussion or conversation
trust trʌst A2	verb - to believe in the reliability or truth of someone or something
Straight Arrow News streɪt ˈæroʊ nuz A1	noun - a news organization

Key Grammar Structures

• latinos of the reject the reject Nion oh and only Latino i'm just kidding everybody we're here for Coco

  ➔ Present continuous tense

  ➔ The phrase "we're here" uses the present continuous tense to describe an action happening now.

• it's been a crazy day so far as we are shooting this but it's Arun and it is Juan and we are back in the studio today

  ➔ Present perfect tense

  ➔ The phrase "it's been a crazy day" uses the present perfect tense to describe an action that started in the past and continues to the present.

• both genres animation's a medium but that's a whole other conversation

  ➔ Appositive

  ➔ The phrase "animation's a medium" is an appositive that renames or explains the noun "genres".

• with a modern Disney classic aaron how you feeling

  ➔ Prepositional phrase

  ➔ The phrase "with a modern Disney classic" is a prepositional phrase that modifies the verb "feeling".

• i met the lamp and the ball what do you even mean by that

  ➔ Direct question

  ➔ The phrase "what do you even mean by that" is a direct question used to ask for clarification.

• so whether I'm catching up with my custom news cube or diving into topics I care about sn gives me facts and context

  ➔ Subordinating conjunction

  ➔ The word "whether" is a subordinating conjunction that introduces a dependent clause.

• you can literally compare how different sides of the political spectrum are reporting the same story

  ➔ Adverb of degree

  ➔ The word "literally" is an adverb of degree that emphasizes the manner of the action.

• i'm going to play if he kills me i would love it if Soul was just about a guy who gave up jazz to work at the AutoZone

  ➔ Conditional sentence

  ➔ The phrase "I would love it if" introduces a conditional sentence expressing a hypothetical situation.

• oh no oh no oh my god beautiful oh she's so dear she's so sweet she's She's too good for this world

  ➔ Interjection

  ➔ The phrases "oh no" and "oh my god" are interjections used to express emotion.

• you must have faith in my dream no one was going to hand it to me it was up to me to reach for that dream grab it tight and make it come true

  ➔ Emphatic structure

  ➔ The phrase "it was up to me" uses an emphatic structure to stress the subject's responsibility.